Overview

The Columbia Commons Interprofessional Education Committee is seeking faculty, staff and students to be “IPE Faculty Leaders” and facilitate workshops for the April 5^th IPE Day. On April 5, 2018 in lieu of regularly scheduled classes for most dental, medical, nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, pastoral care, physical therapy, public health and social work students at Columbia, the campus will join together for a daylong interprofessional curriculum. Students, faculty, and staff will cross school boundaries and join together for presentations, experiential learning, workshops, and skill-building seminars that convey the necessity and skills of egalitarian team work. The purpose of Columbia Commons Campus-Wide Day of Interprofessional Action is to dissolve professional silos and hierarchies and improve respectful, effective, person-centered care.

We need workshop facilitators to make this day a success!

We would like to offer a variety of interactive workshops including all forms of clinical care requiring good team work, health policy, reproductive health, end of life care, the opioid epidemic, environmental hazards, dementia care, precision medicine, obesity, marginalized populations and other related themes important to interprofessionalism. The Columbia Commons Steering Committee will also have prepared curriculums for workshops that IPE Faculty Leaders can choose to utilize.

Workshops can be entirely faculty-led, staff-led, student-led, or a combination. While we welcome existing teams to partner together for presentations, this is not a requirement. We will gladly partner IPE Faculty Leaders from other health professional programs based on topics. IPE Faculty Leaders will lead sessions with dental, medical, nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, pastoral care, physical therapy, public health, and social work students. Sessions will include time for students to introduce themselves, a low-tech presentation on the topic, followed by active discussions and/or interactive activities. In addition to addressing pressing health concerns, these workshops should provide an opportunity for interprofessional communication and team building.

Sign-up to be an IPE Faculty Leader

Want to be an IPE Faculty Leader? Email Tayla Curran (tac2179@cumc.columbia.edu)

Detailed Information for IPE Faculty Leaders

Session Length

There will be a morning and an afternoon session. The times of the workshops have not been finalized, but workshops will take place roughly around 10:45-12:15 and 3:00-4:30. We request that IPE Faculty Leaders facilitate a workshop during both sessions. Workshops will be 90 minutes long. Time is built into the schedule to transition from one building to another between sessions. It is important, however, that you strictly adhere to your scheduled time so that participants will not be late to subsequent activities.

Session Format

We suggest that the first 15 minutes be dedicated to introductions and learning “who is in the room?” Depending on the size of the group, this may involve individual introductions, an icebreaker activity, or large group questions like, “Which of you are from the Dental program? Nutrition? Etc.” IPE Faculty Leaders should also introduce themselves. Each co-IPE Faculty Leader would then present 10-15 minutes of material. The focus may be knowledge-based (focusing on evidence) or skill-based (focusing on advocacy). We are encouraging informal, low-tech methods (no PowerPoint), however, the format is up to you. Please note that we will not have adequate staffing to support varied AV needs. The final 45 minutes of the session should give participants an opportunity to interact with each other and communicate with students from other professions in a discussion or activity connected to the session topic. At the end, IPE Faculty Leaders should pull everyone together for final “take-homes.”

Additional considerations

1. It is important that this interprofessional day remains a non-partisan event. The primary focus is to encourage collaborative approaches to advocacy and addressing the nation’s biggest health issues.

2. Students will be coming from nine different professional programs and will be at different stages of their education. Presenters should not assume any base-line knowledge of the topics being discussed.

3. Whenever possible, try to draw connections between your topic area and the varied professional perspectives that will be represented in the room. This is also a rich opportunity for students to learn about other professions.

4. Offer your own examples of how you or your profession is raising awareness on the issue, and highlight ways students can get involved.

Overall Mission

The overall mission of Columbia Commons Campus-Wide Day of Interprofessional Action is for students to develop the capacity to:

Articulate the importance of mutually respectful interprofessional collaboration in caring for patients, families, communities and populations served.
Describe how roles and responsibilities of members within interprofessional health care teams complement one another.
Understand and utilize the knowledge of one’s own role and those of other professional to best assess and address the healthcare needs of patients, communities and populations served.
Communicate in a responsive and responsible manner when working within an interprofessional health care team.
Build interprofessional relationships with students, faculty, and staff within the CUMC community.
Identify key resources and perspectives that will facilitate the reduction of health disparities.
Identify opportunities for individuals to advocate for health equity and strengthen public health infrastructure and capacity.

Additional Resources

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Final Schedule and Logistics

Speaker confirmations will be sent by January 26, 2018 and the schedule will be finalized in February 2018. Once the schedule is finalized in February we will send additional details regarding when and where to arrive, the anticipated number of students that will participate in your session, and contact information for event volunteers.

Contact Tayla Curran at tac2179@cumc.columbia.edu or 212.305.4975 with questions.